What language is this and what is its English translation:

sudmenta savalta (might be all one word or could be three or more words)?

Here's a photo:

http://www.geocities.com/atgeeoh/UniformButtonSudmentasavalta.jpg

Thank you.

Hi emailshere,
   
"Suomen Tasavalta" is Finnish for The Republic of Finland (though I'm
not quite sure why 'Suomen' appears to be spelt 'Sudmen' on your
button)
 
     
"The Republic of Finland (Suomen Tasavalta in Finnish, Republiken
Finland in Swedish) is a Nordic country, bound by the Baltic Sea to
the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of
Bothnia to the west, bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia (sea border
with Estonia)."
  
http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.php?title=Finland
  
    
A Google search for "Sudmen Tasavalta" yieldied one result, whereas
"suomen tasavalta" yielded 16,000 results:
  
"Sudmen Tasavalta"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22sudmen+tasavalta%22+
  
"suomen tasavalta"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22suomen+tasavalta%22+&spell=1
  
  
Hope that helps!

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Request for Answer Clarification by emailshere-ga on 23 Jun 2004 13:25 PDT

Here is a new address for the photo (the Geocities URL may not be working):
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/emailshere/UniformButtonSudmentasavalta.jpg

The third letter is quite clearly a "D", so if the word is actually
SUOMEN, not SUDMEN, the button casting was defective (buttons, like
coins, are occasionally produced with "typos").  This and the fact
that I was dividing the word in the wrong place made my research
fruitless.

Thanks very much for your help.

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Clarification of Answer by jackburton-ga on 24 Jun 2004 02:04 PDT

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback.
  
Glad I could help!